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From YouTube: April 21, 2016 Intergovernmental Relations
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Minneapolis Intergovernmental Relations Committee Meeting
A
Good
afternoon
everybody,
my
name
is
Alan
dacono
and
I
will
be
chairing
the
committee
today
and
today's
date.
Let's
see
this
is
a
regularly
scheduled
meeting
of
the
intergovernmental
relations
committee
on
Thursday,
April,
21st,
2016
I
am
joined
by
council
members,
Barbara
Johnson,
Jacob,
Frye
and
Abdi
or
sommat.
So
today's
agenda
is
pretty
straightforward.
A
We
have
one
item
on
consent,
which
is
the
Department
of
intergovernmental
relations.
United
black
legislative
agenda-
and
that
is
a
passage
of
the
resolution,
supported
the
United
black
legislative
agenda,
which
relates
to
policy
proposals
of
individuals
and
communities
of
African
descent
in
the
state
of
Minnesota,
and
we
have
two
items
under
discussion
and
that's
under
the
city
coordinators
office.
The
item
number
one
is
our
global
partnerships
and
a
Minneapolis
Sister
Cities
update,
and
then
we
have
a
federal
state
and
local
legislative
update.
A
B
Good
afternoon,
chair
Cano
and
committee
members,
my
name
is
Jenny
Tiago
I'm
with
the
city
coordinators
office,
and
I'm
here
today
to
talk
with
you
about
sister
cities.
Unfortunately
build
ephraim
meet
minneapolis
is
not
available
to
join
us
today,
but
I
would
like
to
note
his
involvement
in
managing
the
Sister
Cities
program
and
contributing
to
today's
report
for
your
consideration.
Today
is
a
recommendation
to
limit
the
number
of
Minneapolis
sister
cities
to
12,
so
we
can
focus
on
continuing
and
reactivating
the
connections
that
we
currently
have.
B
B
B
Most
of
our
sister
cities
have
some
level
of
activity
and
an
active
sister
city
committee.
There
are
two
winnipeg
canada
and
novosibirsk
russia
that
do
not
currently
have
sister
city
committees
meet.
Minneapolis
is
currently
in
conversations
with
the
American
Russian
Chamber
of
Commerce
of
Minnesota
about
reactivating
Novosibirsk,
and
we
do
have
the
Consulate
General
Canada
of
canada
here
in
Minneapolis.
So
that's
an
opportunity
to
talk
about
reactivating
that
relationship.
C
Barbara
johnson,
I
think,
a
manager,
you
know
I
do
think
it
makes
us
some
sense
for
us
to
draw
a
line,
but
I'm
just
wondering
if
then
we
will
look
back
at
our
other
or
existing
sister
cities
and
see
what
it
takes
to
get
them
to
become
more
active
or
encourage
more
activity.
And
then
do
a
reassessment,
and
I
know
I
don't
know
if
anybody's
ever
dropped
out
of
a
sister
city
relationship.
C
But
I
do
know
you
know
there
are
some
that
are
more
active
than
others
and
it
kind
of
waxes
and
wanes
with
obviously
the
volunteer
effort.
That's
supports
it
at
the
local
level.
So
I
just
I
mean
thoughtfully
I
think
we
should
we
shouldn't
just
say
no
more
and
not
look
at
what
we
have
to
say.
Does
this
still
make
sense
to.
A
A
E
You,
madam
chair
I,
I
agree
with
council
president.
I
think
that
makes
a
whole
lot
of
sense
to
we're
going
to
put
a
limitation
to
also
examine
the
sister
cities
that
we
presently
have
and
whom
do
we
have
an
actual
real
relationship
with
that
ultimately
bears
fruit.
You
know
if
you
look
at
ibaraki,
it's
my
understanding
that
they're
fairly
stringent
with
the
sister
cities
that
they
do
and
don't
have,
and
if
and
if
the
relationship
is
is
not
forthcoming
than
they
ultimately
drive
like
that
makes
sense.
I.
A
Have
a
question
so
I'm
aware
that
we
have
you
know
the
sister
cities,
sister
city
relationship
sand,
and
I
am
aware
that
there's
people
that
come
visit
us
and-
and
you
know
we're
able
to
go
visit
them-
how
much
of
our
city's
budget
is
spent
on
supporting
activities
for
the
Sister
Cities
committees,
because
it's
unclear
to
me
who's
really
supposed
to
provide
the
resources
to
host
these
groups
of
folks
when
they
come
here.
You
know,
there's
oftentimes,
meetings
that
happen
and
sometimes
there's
you
know.
A
Exchange
of
you
know
information
and
ideas
and
strategies,
and
you
know
that
requires
some
level
of
resources
to
kind
of
put
together
so
I'm
just
curious
about.
If
you
know
how
much
of
our
of
our
city's
budget
is
spent
on
supporting
sister
city
activities
and
does
that
primarily
happen
through
meet
Minneapolis
or
other
mechanisms?
Chicano.
B
There
I
believe,
historically,
it
was
fifty
thousand
dollars
of
the
contract
with
meet
Minneapolis
for
me,
Plus
to
manage
the
Sister
Cities
program.
I
will
need
to
double-check
this,
but
I
believe
that
was
also
recently
increased.
It
could
be
275
but
I'd
like
to
verify
that
I'm
being
accurate
with
that
information,
and
that
goes
directly
into
that's
part
of
the
meat
minneapolis
contract
set
aside
for
Sister
Cities.
B
Chicano,
that
is
correct
in
the
dollar
figures,
although
city
staff,
time,
which
is
not
budgeted
separately
but
included
in
ongoing
duties,
is
included.
So
it
could
include
my
time
and
could
include
the
visit
to
a
department
to
give
a
presentation
if
it's
a
professional
exchange.
So
there
are
non
specific
budget
dollar
connections,
but
definitely
staff
time
is
also
a
contribution.
A
Okay
sounds
great,
so
that
is
a
the
motion
here
said
to
approve
limiting
the
total
number
of
Minneapolis
sister
cities
to
12,
to
focus
our
current
resources
on
continuing
or
reactivating
the
12
sister
city
connections
currently
attached
to
the
city.
So
I
will
move
that
forward,
all
those
in
favor,
please
say
aye
aye
and
that
moves
ahead.
Our
last
item
here
is
a
federal
state
and
local
legislative
update
from
our
department
of
intern
cover
mental
relations.
Madam.
D
Chair,
thank
you.
I
me.
My
name
is
Jean
Ranieri
I'm,
the
director
of
government
relations
for
the
city
tomorrow
today.
Excuse
me
is
the
third
deadline
for
the
legislature,
which
means
all
finance
bills
need
to
be
passed
out
of
the
finance
and
Ways
and
Means
Committee
today
and
then
starting
next
week
there
will
be
more
action
on
the
floor
and
those
bills
will
probably
be
debated
and
go
into
conference
committee
within
the
next
two
weeks.
The
bills,
the
Senate,
I
think,
is
almost
complete
all
their
work.
D
The
house
has
one
finance
bill
left
and
we'll
be
finishing
that
up
today,
one
of
the
bills.
Now
as
you're
aware
and
I
think
we
talked
about
this
last
time,
house
has
a
target
suspending
target
for
all
their
committees.
That
summer
sums
up
20.
So
in
other
words,
they
don't
want
to
spend
any
extra
money.
Now,
within
some
of
those
budgets,
there's
some
increases,
but
that's
offset
by
decreases
in
the
Senate.
They
decided
to
spend
489
million
dollars
in
supplemental
budget
funding
of
that
around
91
million
dollars
is
used.
D
It's
going
to
be
in
the
equity
article
of
the
supplemental
budget
bill
that
article
was
approved
last
night
and
I
can
quickly
if
you
wish
go
through
some
of
the
things
that
are
in
that
bill.
So
some
of
the
issues
in
the
bill
for
many
many
of
the
folks
were
concerned.
Maybe
it
was
to
Metro
centric.
There
was
too
much
money
going
to
the
metropolitan
area
in
looking
at
the
bill,
and
the
committee's
staff
will
be
doing
this
well.
D
I
think
we're
going
to
discover
that
many
of
the
programs
are
statewide
or
50
50
match,
and
they
are
some
that
are
specific
to
a
certain
areas
of
the
state.
Certain
ethnic
groups
of
the
state,
so
it
looks
like
it'll,
be
a
pretty
balanced
bill.
I
have
the
spreadsheet
before
the
committee
have
to
distribute,
and
it's
not
the
typical
traditional
spreadsheet
it's
just
for
one
year
and
it
has
how
they
decide
to
go
through
the
through
the
funds.
If
I
can
we
can.
D
To
get
to
this
point,
the
subcommittee
met
three
times
last
week
and
reviewed
roughly
sixty
different
pieces
of
legislation
and
spent
the
last
three
or
four
days
trying
to
put
together
a
budget
to
that
would
pass
their
subcommittee
and
also
the
Finance
Committee,
and
go
to
the
floor.
As
you
can
see,
there
are
about
five
or
six
state
departments
are
going
to
be
administering
the
funds.
The
largest
appropriation
is
to
the
Department
of
the
of
the
employment
and
economic
development.
In
that
you
see,
there
are
about
16
different
programs.
D
D
D
Now
there
is
no
companion
bill
in
the
house,
so
we'll
have
to
see
how
this
works
out,
but
there
is
a
lot
of
funding
going
to
for
job
training
for
youth
in
youth
investment,
youth
development,
and
if
we
look
at
number
you
that
work,
that
is
the
summer
youth
program,
there's
eight
million
dollars
in
that
program
and
that
could
be
again
distributed.
Statewide
mini
help
us
with
our
step-up
program
will
receive
some
of
those
dollars.
D
There's
some
Department
of
Corrections
has
a
small
appropriations
to
help
folks
transition
from
the
Air
Care
into
the
community.
There's
money
to
administer
the
program.
Minnesota
Management
and
Budget
admin
essa
money
for
software
education.
The
programs
in
the
education
department
are
mostly
to
train
teachers
to
work
in
inner
city
or
in
communities
where
there's
low
income
and
communities
of
color
throughout
the
state.
D
There's
also
some
funding
and
some
specificity
to
have
providers
for
the
adult
basic
education
program,
trying
to
lift
people
to
get
at
least
the
GED
and
be
able
to
train
for
jobs
and
that's
going
to
be
statewide.
There's
also
some
funds
for
Newman
services.
It's
a
the
SNAP
program
and
I,
don't
know
all
the
details,
but
it's
the
help
with
food
stamps
and
then
the
Department
of
Agriculture
has
a
its
five
million
dollars
and
that's
for
the
food
access
program.
This
is
a
this
is
from
the
heart
association
yeah.
D
The
Heart
Association
as
provide
is
suggesting
legislation
that
would
set
up
in
the
Department
of
Agriculture
a
grant
to
help
with
things
like
food
farmers,
markets
help
with
rehabilitation
and
redevelopment
of
grocery
stores
help
with
stores
in
food
deserts
which
we
have
here
in
our
city.
It's
a
rather
ambitious
program.
They
have
a
23-member,
Advisory
Committee
and
it
has
been
heard
in
the
house,
but
it
wasn't
funded.
But
this
program
is
in
this
equity
position
and
then
there's
money
for
the
Minnesota
Housing
Finance
Agency.
D
Many
of
those
programs
are
existing
and
if
you
have
money
on
top
again
the
caution
there,
the
house
has
a
different
type
of
approach,
so
we'll
go
to
conference
and
see
what
happens,
but
there's
a
lot
of
support
for
this
in
the
Senate
and
there
was
a
bipartisan
votes
both
in
the
subcommittee
and
the
full
committee
last
night,
lots
of
questions
all
about
making
sure
that
funds
got
out
the
Greater,
Minnesota
I'll,
stop
and
try
and
answer
any
questions.
I'm
sure
sure.
A
C
F
F
D
F
D
If
they
can
switch
to
another
topic,
is
the
binding
bill?
I
had
mentioned
that
the
finance
bills
are
done
in
the
policy
bills.
Now,
all
on
the
floor.
What's
left
is
bonding
taxes
and
transportation.
Three
major
bills,
the
bonding
bill
we
expect.
Maybe
in
the
next
two
weeks
as
you're
aware,
the
house
is
suggesting
a
600
million
dollar
issuance
of
bonds,
and
maybe
some
cash
they're
talking
about
possibly
taking
some
of
the
surplus
using
it
for
roads
and
bridges
and
a
600
million
dollar
bonding
bill
would
be
very
difficult
to
pass.
D
I
think
because
it
wouldn't
there
wouldn't
be
in
a
lot
of
projects
in
there.
The
Senate
will
be
coming
out
with
their
bill
later,
and
it
will
probably
be
closer
to
the
governor
and
there's
probably
over
a
billion
dollars.
We
have
our
tenth
Avenue
Bridge,
the
Emergencies
improvements
to
the
emergency
operation
center
for
our
training
center.
Also,
the
cemetery
and
the
35w
Lake
Street.
Those
four
projects
are
active
with
us.
We
know
it
good
indications.
We've
talked
to
folks
about
the
projects,
but
there's
no
final
decision,
yet
the
other
bill
taxes
up
both
bills.
D
The
Senate
has
about
300
million
dollars
in
their
tax
budget.
The
house
has
half
of
the
900
million
is
on
450
the
house,
as
the
Senate
is
looking
at
property
tax
and
middle
income
tax
relief.
The
house
is
also
looking
at
those
as
as
some
business
property
tax
relief,
no
proposals,
yet
they
do
have
bills
that
were
passed
last
year
and
are
in
conference,
so
that'll
be
the
base
for
them
to
discuss
issues
in
that.
D
Of
course,
the
Senate
adds
some
money
to
look
away
to
local
eight
and
the
house
reduces
the
cities
of
the
first
class,
but
hopeful
that
would
not
happen
in
the
transportation
bill.
I
wish
I
had
a
magic
magic
wand
or
something
it's
very
difficult
to
determine
what
will
happen
there.
The
Senate
I
would
like
to
spend
some
more
money
in
terms
of
new
revenue
and
they've
talked
about
a
gas
tax
and
or
an
increase
in
the
tech,
Metro
sales
tax
sales
tax
for
transit.
D
The
house
is
going
to
be
using
existing
funds,
taking
some
funds
out
of
the
general
fund
and
transferring
them
into
transportation.
So
there's
big
differences
there
Oh
we'll
see
what
happens.
I
mean
it's
a
transportation,
it
seems
to
be
the
major
policy
area.
Everyone
is
talking
about
that.
We
need
to
do
something,
but
the
question
is:
how
do
we
do
it
and
I'll
stand
for
questions
manager.
A
Just
looking
to
see,
if
we
have
any
questions
from
committee
members-
and
you
know,
I
just
want
to
say,
I
appreciate
all
the
hard
work
you
do
at
the
at
the
Capitol
to
represent
us
and
to
bring
information
back
to
us
on
these.
Some
topics
which
deeply
impact
our
city
so
I'm
not
seeing
any
questions
right
now.
I
have.
D
Chair
the
in
the
house
targets,
there
was
a
reduction
of
9.5
million
dollars
in
the
government
operations
committee
in
the
Senate
I
think
there
was
actually
an
increase
of
30
million.
The
in
that
bill
includes
all
the
pension
programs.
Tensions
were
not
reduced
at
all
for
anyone
all
the
statewide,
local
or
okay,
I
hope
in
the
Senate.
There's
increased
funding
for
ice
arenas
that
I
think
is
a
refrigeration
problem
in
many
of
the
oldest
ice
rinks
and
there's
the
about
fit.
D
The
sin
is
proposing
15
million
dollars
through
the
mighty
ducks
program
to
change
those
refrigeration
systems.
There's
also
some
money
for
the
judges
retirement
fund
in
the
Senate,
but
they're
apart
and
I
know
we're
all
concerned
about
what
it
means
for
statewide
pension
funds
on
our
own
local
funds
and
have
not
been
touched.